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Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by netr0ute »

p1necone wrote: post #212
p1necone wrote: post #28

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You can pay for YouTube premium for no ads. You already get to choose between free, with ads or paid without. The "adaptation" you're calling for is what exactly? YouTube hosting and serving video content as a charity?

My original comment was downvoted and is too old for me to edit. But I'm still curious. What do the people who disagree with me think YouTube should do? Is the issue that the ads are too intrusive? Are you uncomfortable with the tracking, but would be happy with the current 'pay to not see ads' if it wasn't for the tracking? When you just screech about YouTube being unnacceptable without actually explaining your issu…

> YouTube should do?

Go the way of Digg or disappear entirely, because if you need ads to survive, then you don't have a very good website. The competitors like Rumble or BitChute or Odysee or PeerTube will fill in the gaps.

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Post by shaky-carrousel »

pedrogpimenta wrote: post #174
shaky-carrousel wrote: post #161

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I have a Raspberry pi 4, with Kodi, Sonarr, Radarr, Transmission and nzbget for that. I recently added heimdall as a panel to have all links in one place.

I have all of that, except instead of Kodi, Jellyfin. Also no nzbget because I just found out about that and AFAIK you need some kind of invite to enter a Usenet? I dunno! I get by with torrents :)

The good thing of Usenet, apart from the speed, is that you are downloading only, not sharing, and in some jurisdictions that matters.

Anyway, most free Usenet providers place limits on how much and what you can download. I use Eweka, which is a paid provider. But there are a lot more. Eweka is a normal Usenet provider (I use it to access normal Usenet too) but it gives access to the entire Usenet, and it's fast.

Then nowadays all the pirated content in Usenet is scrambled, so you'll need an indexer, which is a search engine for content on Usenet. I'm not sure if I can share which one I use here, but you can check the Usenet subreddit, if you want to use one.

All in all, the setup works well. I give preference to Usenet content, because it's fast. If the *arr apps can't find the content in Usenet (because it's too old, for example), they switch to torrent.

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by johnisgood »

naikrovek wrote: post #217
johnisgood wrote: post #98

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On top of all this, being logged in is not enough. I just checked right now. You have to verify yourself using either a credit card, or submitting an image of a valid ID, such as your driver's license or passport (I have neither, FWIW). NO THANKS. I cannot tell you just how much I hate this kind of bullshit. This is becoming increasingly common. Call me old and grumpy, but I would much prefer to go back 10-20 years.…

COPPA is responsible for this, not Google. Google are just following the law after being fined for not following it. call your elected representatives and complain if you're in the US.

I am not in the US. These comments are good. I do believe most of the bullshit is regulation-related, coming from the Government.

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Post by MayeulC »

franga2000 wrote: post #191
MayeulC wrote: post #127

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https://drewdevault.com/2021/09/23/Nitter-and-other-internet... Use nitter, libreddit, invidious, bibliogram (is that one dead?) and others. It's a shame that these big companies seem to suck at making usable websites. They probably chase "conversion" to new accounts at all costs. And that probably works (A/B tested).

> It's a shame that these big companies seem to suck at making usable websites. The Reddit and Twitter web apps are actually great on mobile, but they lock you out after a few minutes. I used to use both all the time until three or so years ago when the constant app pushing made both unusable.

The websites are extremely slow to load on my phone (galaxy s4 with lineageos 17.1). Using midori in a private tab:

- Time to load a twitter link: 14s (20s to display a preview of the picture).

- Same link on a nitter instance: 5s, page fully loaded, with replies.

Also, less than half the page is dedicated to content, I have:

- a search bar

- log in/sign up

- Cookies notice

- "Twitter is better on the app" "Not Now/Switch to the app" (that one takes a lot of space).

All of the above keeps floating above the content, so I can only scroll through a tiny window. The content is lazy-loaded, which makes scrolling annoying. A lot of space is wasted with buttons that are only useful if you're logged in.

The experience is terrible on mobile, and it's mostly the same for reddit.

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

elric wrote: post #91

Some time ago Google made some changes to age verification, and now you can't watch age restricted videos without logging in, which means you can't watch them using NewPipe. It also means you can't watch them without handing over your phone number to Google, because it seems it's no longer possible to create a YT account without a phone number. This whole thing makes NewPipe a lot less useful than it used to be.

NewPipe has no support for resuming interrputed downloads. Overrite only. This makes NewPipe inferior to downloading from the command line.

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by seized »

R_VelJohnson wrote: post #214
genzer wrote: post #47

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Have you tried YouTube Kids? I allow my daughter using only YouTube Kids (in kid mode) on my Android phone. The suggested content was good enough. Google also allowed you to supervise the content [1]. [1]: https://support.google.com/youtubekids/answer/7178746#block_...

I tried YouTube Kids, but found it was suggesting a lot of surprise egg and colorful slime videos. I blocked those channels, but more showed up, so I deleted the app.

Its only usable (in my opinion) in the allow list channel mode. Otherwise its never ending reaction blocking.

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by jevyjevjevs »

xrd wrote: post #39

Does this or Vanced help with the problem I have: my kids are being brainwashed via Google's algorithms? More specifically, I hate that when they watch YouTube it is pushing really shitty content on them. Is there a way with either of these apps to filter out things I don't want them to watch, or perhaps even have a list of things I only want them to watch? I don't think my kids would notice if they couldn't get Ninj…

When my kids want to watch something on a topic, I use yt-dlp to download a bunch of videos.

I have that older synced with my Synology, and my kids have that folder syncing with Synology on their iPad.

I've found this to be a good balance for managing it easily for me, giving them what they want to see without giving youtube access.

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